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Marcello Pedruzzi

From TV to Cinema - From Director to Banjo Player

I was in the audience of this wonderful show yesterday: they played soundtracks from Star Trek to the Simpsons and made us aware that half of the effects a movie or a TV show have on us, is actually made by the music.

I don’t know if it was because of the amazing soundtracks, the good musicians or the so cute kids of the "Boys Choir Lucerne" but the emotions were really overwhelming. And yet I had some really "material" thoughts as well. How much does the concertmaster actually earn for such an evening? How much the solo oboist, the banjo player and one of the violists? And what about the vocalists, the boys choir and their directors? How much the producer, the composer, the concert hall and the owner of the brands?

Surely for the experience of the audience all of them are fundamental: without one of them the concert would not have been possible. Every single piece of this mosaic had to be there so that I could get the intense emotions I got. But only few of them got also paid for doing that. And probably those are the ones who did the less work, if measured in time invested for this project. How unfair is that?

And besides: how unfair is the fact that e.g. bankers earn so much, when they actuallq gave any of such unique and wonderful feelings to anybody?

I usually don't complain for such unimportant things, since there is war, violence and hunger on the world, but I am always a bit concerned when I notice that even music often bears inequality.